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The Hershey Experience or High-Tech Gamble?
Staff Reporters
At Hershey Medical Center, in Pennsylvania, a sophisticated computer program now serves as a watchdog for infection outbreaks.
Internet Enabled Health 2.0
According to the Associated Press, December 30 2008, with a few mouse clicks on a Web browser, the hospital’s infection-control staffers can quickly generate reports with charts and graphs illustrating how many patients within a particular unit are infected, and which lab specimen contained the germs; etc.
Assessment
Some Pennsylvania health officials view the nascent technology as a critical tool for helping hospitals reduce health care costs by identifying potential systemic infection-control problems sooner than is possible by reviewing paper records by hand. Other pundits may not agree!
Conclusion
And so, your thoughts and comments on this Medical Executive-Post are appreciated. Will the data be reported for hospital quality improvement initiatives; or cloistered from stakeholders? And, will infection tracking and rate reporting finally become something more than a high-tech gamble?
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